Oil burner



J.E.JONES Sept. 8, 1925 OIL BURNER Filed June 11, '192:5

Patented Sept. 1925.

f e* UNITED vvSTATES' JOSEPH E; JONES,- OF MOUNT WASHINGTON,"iviissoURL OIL BURNER.

l.Application filed .Tune 11, 1923. Serial No. 644,339.

To @ZZ whom #may concern.' K

v13e it known that I, .Iosnrii Joints, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Mount Washington, county ofJackson, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new-and useful Improvement in Oil Burners, of which the followingis a cation.

This invention relates to oil burners and my object is to producean efficient andeco'- nomical oil burner, and connections ,whereby the iow of oil may be positively Acontrolled from a remote .point without danger of completely shutting off kvthe flow. .1,

Y`Another object isyto provide means whereby the accidental complete closure of the feed against. Y u AY further object istoprovide a Vburner which is readily adjustable as to, heightjto accommodate particular furnaces.

l/Vith the objects named in :view theinvention consists in certain novel and useful features of construction andforgan-iZationQof parts as hereinafter described andolamed; and in order that-itfmay be Vfully understood, reference is to be had to the accom panying drawing, in which:

- tion with a pair of pipes 3 extending upwardly through the grate of the furnace into the fire box, not shown. The assembly thus described is supported by a pair of plates 4.

provided with leveling feet 5 in their extremities, wherebythe burner may be readily and easily leveled as common in the art. It

` will be readily apparent that the length of the pipes 3 may be easily varied to accommodate any particular type or size of furnace by making them in sections connected together by unions 3a.

The vertical pipes 3 are threaded near their upper ends through bosses 6 formed on the underside of a fire plate 7, and are engaged complete speci-` y Avalve may :be positivelyvguarded,

with 'the'. opposite ends of an inverted U-'shaped generator 8. ACommunicating with the vertical center lof thel generator is a short pipe section 9 which is axially connect'edto fa shallow,gas-superheating chamber 10.1 Leadingfrom tlie'upper part of the sidewallof thesuperheater lis a gas pipe 11 whichat its lower .end is connected to thel stemk off-a T-coupling 12 having its head in'vertical alinenient with .the center of the superheater and supported `by the'plate 7 L f,

Secured-in thef'upper end of the head of the T-couplingis a burner tip 13` formed internally with a conical bore 141, and fcommunicating with the other'end .of-said head of thQTTcOupling is a short pipe section 15 extendingdownwardly through an opening 16 Yformedcentrally. of the yplate..7

, The T-co'uplingand its connections are securely maintained ,in position on the plate 7, by .means of a. nut 17 threaded/on the pipel and in abutment'with the underside .ofl saidpljate. -Thepipe 15 is closed V.atits lowerrend `byA-,ai'iy suitable packing 18 held in position by a-.packing nut 19. ASlidingly mounted inthe pipelf)l is the stem Y20 of a conical valve 21, said valvebeing adapted to enter the conical bore 14 of the burner tip 13, it being noted in this connection that the stem 20 isreduced as at 22 to allow of a certain flexibility of movement of the Valve 21 in finding its seat, and also to provide an enlarged chamber 23 for the receptionl v of the gas, as will be readily understood.

The lower end of the stem 20-is pivotally connected to a-link 24: having adjustable connection at 25 with an arm 26 rigidly secured by a clamping nut 27 to a rotatable shaft 28.

scribed, will close the slide valve 21 and shut off theflow of oil. p

Connected to the lever 31 is an operating chain 33 which may be manually or automatically controlled to open the valve by an upward pull imparted to the chain, which may lead,` if desired, to anyfloor above vthe basement. `In order to prevent the acei-y dental full closure of the valve'21, the lever 3l is Vprovided with a pivoted leg 34 which, through contact with the floor, will limit the downward movement of the end of the lever and consequently limits the closure of the valve. The leg 34 is provided with an adjustable foot- 35 whereby the limit of closing movement may be readily regulated.

In the operation of the burner, paper or the like is placed in the fire plate 7 and a quantity of oil is allowed to overflow the burner tip and saturate such material. The flow of oil is now shut off and the material contained on the fire plate is ignited. This burning material will soon gasify the oil contained in the superheater and its connections. As soon as a quantity of gas has been generated, the valve is again opened to permit the gas to escape from the top to ignite, and this burning gas impinging lof the superheater and burner will quickly gasify all of the oil in the superheater and a certain proportion thereof standing in the generator as common in the art.

It will be evident kthat thereafter the quantity of oil consumed by the burner may be readily regulated through opening movements imparted to the valve 21 by means of the pull chain 33 and gravitatlve closing movements imparted by the weight 32. It will be noted that the bottom of the super heater 10 is slightly concave and centrally thereof is formed with a shallow conical connection having its apex in 'alignment with the jet orifice of the burner tip so as to deflect the flame radially outward in all directions, the concave surface of the superheater having a tendency to cause the ame to spread horizontally loutward sufficiently to impinge against the walls of the fire pot so as to obtain maximum benefit from the heat units and thereby affect conservation of fuelin the operation of the burner.

From the above description it will be apparent that I have produced lan oil burner of the character described which possesses all of the features of advantage set forth as desirable, and while I'have described and claimed the preferred embodiment of the same, I reserve the right to make all changes properly falling within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

In an oil burner, a supply pipe, .a pair of vertical stand pipes leading upwardly therefrom, an inverted U-shaped generator communicating with the sand pipes, aV superheater between the legs of the generator and communicating at itsyupper side with the overlying part of the generator, a fire plate supported on the stand pipes below the generator, a coupling mounted on the central portion of the fire plate vertically below the superheater and provided with a gas nozzle, a vapor pipe connecting the superheater` with the nozzle, a slide valve in the nozzle, and means for adjustingsaid valve.

In witness whereof I hereunto aiiiX my signature. .Y

' JOSEPH E. JONES. 

